A nutritional researcher is investigating natural remedies to gout attacks - one promising suggestion is the incorporation of eel into their diet. The researcher randomly samples 113 patients currently experiencing a gout attack and provides 57 of them withone week worth of eel dinners. The other 56 continue eating a diet devoid of eel. After the eel intervention, the researcher studies whether or not the gout attack dissipated. Specifically, the researcher wants to know if the eel diet treatment is effective in curing gout.

Please answer the following questions:

What is the Independent variable?

What is the Dependent variable?

State the Null and Alternative Hypotheses: